[Wish] EditText Cursor Color and/or Actionbar Menu Text Color

[Roger Garstang]

Need a way of controlling these somehow. Depending on Holo Theme being light or dark these seem to be linked.

If I set the theme to dark then they are both white. This works ok for the Actionbar since it is dark, but I get no cursor in my EditTexts if their background is white...even though the text is black. (Cursor is white)

If I set it to Holo Light then I get my cursor back, but the Titlebar has Dark Text on a Dark background.

I've read somewhere about setting the cursor drawable to null to make it use text color, but it appears to be in XML only.

 

[lymey]

Need a way of controlling these somehow. Depending on Holo Theme being light or dark these seem to be linked.

If I set the theme to dark then they are both white. This works ok for the Actionbar since it is dark, but I get no cursor in my EditTexts if their background is white...even though the text is black. (Cursor is white)

If I set it to Holo Light then I get my cursor back, but the Titlebar has Dark Text on a Dark background.

I've read somewhere about setting the cursor drawable to null to make it use text color, but it appears to be in XML only.

I agree, it is really frustrating, and somewhate ridiculus to be able to change the EditText background and text, and not have the cursor reflect the text color. so yes +++1 on my wish list!

 

[dealsmonkey]

++1 from me aswell !

 

[joop]

Yes, that would be nice .
I am struggling , with cursor colours and different android versions
Sometimes it's black , then blue ,then white all with the same code .

 

[Erel]

The simplest solution is to use the DEFAULT color. This way the colors will be "correct".

The only way to change the cursor color is by declaring the EditText in XML and then loading it with XmlLayoutBuilder library.

 

[joop]

With The DEFAULT color you mean ,the default property text color from the Edittext view ?

 

[Erel]

Yes.

 

[joop]

I found this :

Setting the android:textCursorDrawable attribute to @null should result in
the use of android:textColor as the cursor color.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7238450/set-edittext-cursor-color

Can this be done with XmlLayoutBuilder with an Edittext view , I dont have
much experience with this.

 

[DonManfred]

Can this be done with XmlLayoutBuilder with an Edittext view

Yes. Erel said

The only way to change the cursor color is by declaring the EditText in XML and then loading it with XmlLayoutBuilder library.

But, sorry, i dont have experiences too with xml-layouts

 

[joop]

I finally managed to to set the cusor-color with a xml file.
But when working with the scaling module , it gives some errors.

Erel can you take a look at it ?, maybe it isnt possible what i want to do.

see this link:
http://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/autoscale-code-module.23750/page-3
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